The End We Start From

**A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, The End We Start From is a haunting but hopeful dystopian vision of a familiar world made dangerous and unstable./b>b>'Engrossing, compelling' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power/b>b>'I was moved, terrified, uplifted /b>-b> sometimes all three at once' - Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring/b>Megan Hunter's honed and spare prose paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. Though the country is falling apart around them and its people are forced to become refugees, this family's world - of new life and new hope - sings with love.In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as the baby's small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.b>With Benedict Cumberbatch calling it 'a stunning tale of motherhood', film rights have been sold to his production company SunnyMarch./b>

Auteur

Megan Hunter

Texte du rabat

As flood waters close over London, a woman gives birth to her first child . . .
'Virginia Woolf does cli-fi . . . tender and tremendous' Independent
'Lyrical, uplifting and unmissable' Stylist
'Keeps the reader pinned to the page' Guardian
'Sparse, beautiful and heroic' Evie Wyld, Observer
'Beautifully spare and haunting' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
'I was moved, terrified, uplifted - sometimes all three at once' Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring
'Extraordinary . . . I read it in one sitting' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
'A stunning tale . . . striking and frighteningly real' Benedict Cumberbatch

Résumé

Now a major film starring Killing Eve's Jodie Comer.

As flood waters close over London, a woman gives birth to a child. Heartfelt and urgently original, *The End We Start From* is the compulsive debut novel from Megan Hunter.

'Beautifully spare and haunting' - Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

'Extraordinary. Megan Hunter's prose is exquisite' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites

Days after giving birth, mother and child are forced to leave home in search of safety. The journey north with be dangerous but new life and fresh hope push them on . . .

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, The End We Start From is a haunting but hopeful dystopian vision of a familiar world made dangerous and unstable.

'Virginia Woolf does cli-fi . . . tremendous' Independent

'Stunning' Benedict Cumberbatch